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She wrote so strangely--I always long to take her professions of love [[underline]] & direct them--To any Body--anywhere. [[/underline]] June the 4th 1804 .... this scruple on my part operating on that heart which litterally [[underline]] lives within yr Bosom [[/underline]] & has [[underline]] no habitation elsewhere [[/underline]] makes me willing to save you from present--if you now saw my heart as it is, & my affection for you as it now is--you would be [[underline]] compelled [[/underline]] by the Excellence of yr whole nature to do me [[underline]] justice [[/underline]] --& rather to renounce the whole World than me; --I am doing this by you, --not from the Excellence of my nature, but from a [[underline]] just [[/underline]] & [[underline]] due [[/underline]] appreciation of [[underline]] yr-- [[/underline]]
